wow............now if only they would ban the RIAA

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Sony Develops Longer Recording Mini Discs


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Jan 7, 1:49 PM (ET)


TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. (SNE) has developed a technology that boosts the audio recording capacity of its mini-discs from the current 80 minutes to a whopping 40 hours, Japan's leading business daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, reported Wednesday.

Sony spokeswoman Junko Sato said Sony planned an announcement about mini-disc technology and products Thursday but said parts of the newspaper report were inaccurate. She did not elaborate.

The report said Sony plans to start selling the mini-discs and recorders this year and will approach other makers to adopt the technology, including rival Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., producer of the Panasonic brand.

The new disc is the same size as current discs, which record 80 minutes of sound each, and the new machines will be able to play both new and old discs, the report said. The recorders will have copyright protection and will be able to record video, the paper said without elaborating.

Sony's offering may be a bid to better compete against digital audio products already on the market such as Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, which holds up to 10,000 songs on a hard drive.

The news comes as Sony has been struggling to lift its image and sales after it fell behind rivals in hit consumer electronics products such as flat-panel TVs and DVD recorders.

Sony estimates that global sales of mini-disc players and recorders from all manufacturers have totaled about 80 million since the devices went on sale in 1992. Sony expects to sell more than 7 million mini-disc Walkmans worldwide in the fiscal year ending in March

[The Roots]

the mini disc's are the small ones right? If this is true shouldn't the CD-R disc's be having more space in the future?

Knowing Sony, They Will, Over Protect The System...
Just Like Their MP3 Players That Can't Play MP3 But Only Special Sony Decoded Files That Can Only Be Made With The Original CD...So Totaly UseLess...
Or Like Their CD-RW Burners That Can't Burn Over 700MB.

The Only Thing I Like From Sony Is Their PlayStation2 Maby They Can Use This In The PS3

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I hate that shit i got a mini disc player because i heard i could put 80 songs on it and that was about twice as what i was getting on my CD-R/W's so i told some kid i would give him 40 bucks for his gave him 10 bucks there and walked with my new mini disc player. only to get home and have to install alll this gay music software and convert all this shit into a special format. Useless. I want an IPOD.

[beekeeper]

Gay music software? What so you can play stuff like Boy George on it? Maybe the Gods were looking down after you ripped the kid off 30 dollars lol

[listboxes]

lmao if it makes you feel better i didnt like the kid . Nah software to change the format and shit like that it was.... well, gay.